How to Fall (and Stay) in Love

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Modern Love team asked you to share with us the moment you knew you were falling in love, and you delivered. Your stories took us to so many places — dinner dates, subway rides, sunsets, concerts — and showed us the many shapes of love. There were so many that we could not list them all. In this episode, we listen back to your voice messages. Then, Daniel Jones, the editor of Modern Love, joins us to discuss the “36 Questions That Lead to Love” and what they reveal about how we fall in love. And Mandy Len Catron, the writer who popularized the 36 questions in her Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” reads her essay and tells us whether she’s still in love with the same man 10 years later. Here’s how to submit a Modern Love essay to The New York Times. Here’s how to submit a Tiny Love Story.

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0:00.0	Love now and...
0:03.7	Love was stronger than anything.
0:07.7	I feel of love.
0:08.8	And I love you more than anything.
0:11.8	Modern love!
0:11.8	You're still love.
0:16.2	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:19.1	This is Modern Love.
0:20.9	Hi, Modern Love. Hello, Modern Love. Hi, Modern Love.
0:21.7	Hello, Modern Love.
0:22.6	Hello, Modern Love.
0:24.0	Hi.
0:24.4	My name is Nick.
0:25.4	My name's Ebony.
0:26.5	I live in Austin, Texas.
0:27.7	I live in Atlanta.
0:28.8	I live in Athens, Georgia.
0:30.3	Calling from Vancouver.
0:31.9	I live in Paris, France.
0:33.5	New Zealand.
0:34.2	Philadelphia.
0:34.9	Charlestown, West Virginia.
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